The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
IRVIN D. YALOMHeidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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